An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
The562’s coverage of Vikings athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Long Beach City College. Expectations are very high for an explosive Long Beach City College football squad and they showed why with an emphatic 72-6 season opening win over visiting LA Southwest on Saturday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium. LBCC hasn’t scored […]
This week we’re talking about the times we were lucky enough to see Kobe Bryant in Long Beach and at the Summer Olympics in London. We’ll also recap the 64th Long Beach Century Club Awards Banquet (21:00) and talk about the best moments from Monday night at The Grand.
Here’s the full lineup of the first week of the football playoffs in Long Beach. Division 2 Long Beach Poly vs. Orange Lutheran, Veterans Memorial Stadium at 7 p.m. Division 7 Wilson vs. Fullerton, 7 p.m. Division 9 St. Anthony vs. Newport Harbor, 7 p.m. Lakewood @ Brea Olinda, 7 p.m. Division 11 Compton @ El […]